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J. H. STONE. WARPING REEL Patented Dec. 24, 1889.

No. 417,844. 9 R1 4\ pulley has been adjusted by the application UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH II. STONE, OF ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DAVIS & FURBER MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WARPlNG-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,844, dated December 24, 1889.

Application filed April 3, 1888. Serial No. 269A6'7. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. STON of Andover, county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in WVarping-Reels, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In another application, Serial No. 267,473, filed on the 17th day of March, 1888, I have described and shown means for holding stationary the driver-pulley of a reel while the reel is being moved longitudinally with rela tion to a warp-dresser. Prior to my invention, as described in the said application, this thereto of the hand of the operator. In the machine of present invention the said pulley is surrounded or engaged by a pulleycontroller which I have added to the machine, the said pulley controller having jointed to it connections by or through which the operator at either end of the reel may readily apply to the said pulley-controller the necessary power to move it longitudinally on the driving-shaft of the reel to enable the said pulley to be quickly placed in proper alignment with the pulley on the dressershaft, notwithstanding the different longitudinal positions of the reel withrelation to the dresser.

My invention consists, essentially, in the combination and arrangement of mechanism as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed, whereby the object just stated is accomplished.

Figure 1 in side elevation represents a reel embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, an end elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 a modification of the pulley-controller.

A is the reel-frame; B, the reel-shaft; B B with their connected bars B the reel; D, the driver-shaft of the reel, mounted in suitable bearings upon the reel-frame. D is a driver-pulley mounted loosely to slide only upon the driver-shaft D, and D a belt which isextended over a pulley P, fixed upon a shaft P, which is supposed to be one of the shafts of a warp-dresser. The reel-frame A, at its opposite corners next the floor, is provided with sheaves and rolls 1), which rest upon tracks 25, laid upon the floor. The bars of the reel contain pins B which divide the reel up into sections, and the yarn coming in usual manner from the dresser is wound upon first one and then another section of the reel, each section being filled in succession. To do this the reel has to be moved longitudinally with relation to the dresser after each section has been filled, and as the driver-pul- 6o ley D is driven from the pulley P on the dresser it becomes necessary for the operator to grasp the pulley D in his hand and slide the same upon the shaft D until the said pulley is in proper alignmentwith the pulley P, so that the belt D will run straight upon both pulleys, and to obviate this grasping of the pulley D by hand I have applied to the reel-frame a pulley-controller, as E, it embracing or engaging the pulley D the controller being shown as supported on the crossgirt D, which may be grooved, if desired, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to act as a guide for the said controller; or the said 0011- troller may slide upon a cross girt or rod, as f in Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. l, the pulleycontroller has two arms or uprights, in which are placed the hubs of the pulley D but instead the pulley-controller may have a single arm, as shown in Fig. 3, the said arm enter- 8o ing loosely an annular groove formed in one of the hubs of the pulley D The pulleycontroller has attached to it the opposite ends of a flexible connector, as d, the said connector being extended over a sheave 4, then down under and about a sheave 3, and under and over a like sheave at the opposite end of the machine, and upover a sheave 2, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2. By the flexible connector the operator may stand on the floor at either end of the reel and push the reel upon the track into proper position, and then by the flexible connector (1 may readily move the 1:)ul1ey-controllcr to place the pulley D in proper alignment with the pulley P. The

operator may also by engaging the connector d by one end hold the same and the pulleycontroller while the reel is rolled along upon the track 25.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the I00 particular form of pulley-controller, as instead I may use any well-known equivalent device whereby the pulley 1) may be moved on the shaft D. As, for instance, I may provide one hub of the pulley with an annular groove in which will be entered an arm, as f, (see Fig. 3,) the hub of the said arm being guided on arod f or in other usual manner.

I claim The reel, the reel-frame, the driver-shaft, power-connections between it and the reel, and the driver-pulley adapted to slide upon said shaft and to rotate with it but not independently of it, combined with a controller for the driver-pulley, sheaves at opposite sides of the reel-frame, and an endless fiexible connector attached by its endsto opposite sides of said controller and extend- JOSEPH H. STONE.

Witnesses:

EBEN A. BALDWIN, GEO. L. WR GHT. 

